SRINAGAR : Welcoming the recent meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Ufa, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said peace in the region can only be attained through sustained and meaningful dialogue between the two nations.
Defending Jammu and Kashmir’s special status granted by the Indian Constitution, Mr Sayeed said the state enjoys a unique place in the Indian Union and its power flows through one of the strongest Assemblies of the country.
The Chief Minister was addressing a gathering of people at Mazar-e-Shohada at Naqshband Sahab here, after paying homage to the martyrs of July 13, 1931. Quoting from his slogan of 2002 Na Bandook Se Na Goli Se, Baat Banegi Boli Se, the Chief Minister said people of the state have shown the strength of ballot by voting overwhelmingly in a series of elections since 2002.
He said both India and Pakistan have to resolve their differences by talking to each other for entrenching lasting peace in the region. Asking the people to safeguard the state’s special status granted by the Indian Constitution, the Chief Minister hailed the people and leadership of the state during the freedon struggle of the country by rising above religious considerations and acceding to India, which was an embodiment of secularism.
It gives me immense pride to say that J&K was part of the collective struggle in the sub-continent against the British and their cohorts, he added. Making a special mention of the empowerment of people at the grassroots level at that time, the Chief Minister said the struggle by peasants and the downtrodden bore fruit by agricultural reforms that culminated in enactment of Big Landed Estates Abolition and Agrarian Reforms Acts. (AGENCIES)
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